Lilium pumilum
Lilium pumilum
Pumilum Lilium ( Lilium potaninii syn ) is a species of the genus Lilium (Lilium ) in the Asian section.
Description
Lilium pumilum reaches a height of 15 to 60 cm. The bulbs are round to conical and reach a diameter of 2 to 3 cm, they are covered with white scales. The stalk is crowded papillae and sometimes purple. The leaves linear, from 3.5 up to 9 cm long and 1.5 to 3 cm wide. They are distributed in over the stem, but are piling up in the middle of the plant. The median nerve is highlighted on the underside of leaves, leaf margin papillose.
Lilium pumilum blooms from June to August with a single fresh orange similar fragrant flower or several nodding ( in culture up to 20) of a panicle flowers with shiny texture. The hermaphrodite flowers are triple. The six arranged bloom ( tepals ) are strongly recurved ( turks composite form) and 4 to 8 cm long. The basic color of the flowers is bright red with no or only a few points on the flower base. Each flower has three carpels and six stamens. The anthers are yellow, pollen vermilion and 12 to 25 mm long filaments are reddish white. The nectaries papillose on both sides. The seeds mature in up to 1.8 cm long, oblong seed capsules from September to October and germinate instant- epigeal.
Dissemination
Lilium pumilum is found along forest edges or hillside meadows at altitudes 400-2600 m above sea level.
It is native to the Chinese provinces of Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong and Shanxi, but is also found in Korea, Mongolia and Central and Eastern Siberia.